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USI offers master’s courses around the Mediterranean area. You will gain international experience and new perspectives. Together with students and teachers from different universities, disciplines and academic traditions you will be given the opportunity to take part of new knowledge, but also to put your knowledge into practice.

For one to two weeks you will be doing fieldwork on location in the Mediterranean region. Through the Swedish Institutes and our established contacts with universities in the region you will get the opportunity to meet local experts and be able to explore conditions on site.

All of our courses are cross-disciplinary and open for applications for everyone with a bachelor’s degree. The courses are offered through a cooperation between several Swedish universities. Your application should be submitted through antagning.se unless stated differently in the course information given below.

Saga om kursen “Refugees, rights and realities”:

On the same day we could experience so many different parts of humanity.

I am doing a master’s in Middle East studies and I am interested in the connection between migration, human rights and the supply of water. In Jordan we had the opportunity to approach these issues both at lectures and at visits in the refugee camps.

Among other places we visited the Zaatari camp for Syrian refugees, but also camps of more ancient date for Iraqi and Palestinian refugees.

It was a very hectic trip that made us see incredibly diverse things. On the same day we could experience so many different parts of humanity.

To have seen several different refugee camps in Jordan has given me insights and understandings that overcome the distance between the academy and the reality. Currently I am working among refugees in Lebanon as a preparation for my master’s thesis, and my experiences from the course have been very valuable to my work here.

Through the course I have been given the opportunity to meet other students with similar interests. After a journey like this we will most certainly keep in touch and meet and work together again.

Some advice to students who are about to take the course: make sure that you are thoroughly rested and be prepared for many different impressions! Relax and let the theme of your examination project come to you!